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Friday, September 29, 2017

What is she up to NOW?

As promised, with a quilt cave that is clean and organized, time to make a mess!Picking just the right red scrap for a cherry...

Since I like to work on a few things as a time, I needed to start something to have some satisfying hand applique prep and hand stitching to do while watching Alabama and Auburn Football and other TV shows.This original design has been on my mind for a while, and it was fun to take the rough sketches and turn them into nine blocks this week. Every time I finished a block, I just giggled to myself.Can you imagine these glue prepped motifs in the same project?!?

A hint: they won't all be in the same block. Above they are just positioned on a piece of paper for a picture.Making the French fries isn't really that hard. Just two rows with a little overlapping. NO CALORIES!I'm trying not to have the fries and burger look like a particular brand.

All of the colors in these pictures are darker and duller than they really are. I love working with bright tone-on-tone fabrics, but my photo skills can't keep up with me.

Some of the blocks need embroidery details once they are stitched down to the backgrounds and the glue soaked out.I really love using reverse applique to do the eyes, then find just the right sized black-on-white dot to peek through from the back.

No surprise, I had a pink fabric that looked like cupcake sprinkles.

Now I have to choose a background for the blocks...white or cream, tone-on-tone or speckled. I hate choosing fabrics! Scrappy makes things easy when making choices for the motifs, but for something unifying like the background or borders, I sort of freeze.Fortunately, I have several more motifs to sort out and prep before I need to glue baste them to backgrounds. Ah, procrastination...one of my best friends.

A hammer seriously? You never know what I will put into a quilt. Remember I put a piece of DNA in my last quilt...

I love the latest applique pieces you are putting together... I am making happy progress with my applique letters... and I love having a portable project too!! Can't wait to see what your background winds up being... when you are ready for that... and how all these things relate in your newest creation... enjoy the organized and clean studio too!!! Kathi

Your fabric choices for the burger and fries work well. Love the cheese addition. And all the different fabrics for the fries. The donkey is very whimsical. Reminds me of Donkey Basketball games when I was in school. I don't know that they do that any more.

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I'm a quilter, musician, wife, mother of a college sophmore, research biochemist (used-to-be), compulsive organizing freak, and a lover of all the history surrounding quilting. I am drawn to all forms of quilting, but particularly like to do hand applique and hand quilting, which I tend to approach with a wacky, weird sense of humor. After dabbling with pattern doodling, I'm offering some patterns for purchase through my online store (see the link above). I have recently returned to my state of origin after 25 years in the Midwest...wasn't really a Midwesterner, but not really a Southerner anymore...in limbo!